NO one used her name anymore, it was dead to everyone who had known her. To hear it was a shock again, but to hear from his lips, it was enough to make her have to look down to force her composure.
Damn the program and damn Oni They knew this would be hard on her, they’d sent her hear knowing her past and knowing that meant Tom would be willing to work with her on it. But they had to have known it would hurt like hell too. To just pop into his life and back out again without any sort of decent explanation, never knowing if she’d even see him again.
“You have nothing to apologize for, I was dropped into your lap and you’re rising to the task.” She wanted.. well she wanted a lot. Not the least of which was to grab his hand and try to run away somewhere far away from all of this and pretend the intervening years never happened. But that wasn’t who either of them were.
“I deserved it.” She said quietly. “I should have tried to get you word somehow. It took a long time to get back to form, and after that it seemed like, even if I could get word out from the program that it might do more harm than good.” Please Tom, let her carry this burden, you’ve already done so much. “I don’t know what it means, maybe nothing, but I am so proud of you.”
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Date: 2020-01-22 12:24 am (UTC)NO one used her name anymore, it was dead to everyone who had known her. To hear it was a shock again, but to hear from his lips, it was enough to make her have to look down to force her composure.
Damn the program and damn Oni They knew this would be hard on her, they’d sent her hear knowing her past and knowing that meant Tom would be willing to work with her on it. But they had to have known it would hurt like hell too. To just pop into his life and back out again without any sort of decent explanation, never knowing if she’d even see him again.
“You have nothing to apologize for, I was dropped into your lap and you’re rising to the task.” She wanted.. well she wanted a lot. Not the least of which was to grab his hand and try to run away somewhere far away from all of this and pretend the intervening years never happened. But that wasn’t who either of them were.
“I deserved it.” She said quietly. “I should have tried to get you word somehow. It took a long time to get back to form, and after that it seemed like, even if I could get word out from the program that it might do more harm than good.” Please Tom, let her carry this burden, you’ve already done so much. “I don’t know what it means, maybe nothing, but I am so proud of you.”